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Bad Leroy Brown · Jim Croce

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove B -- Part B
67 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesJHBES8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Leroy Brown on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-80, silence through bars 81-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-60, 73-80 and 89-108 -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bad Leroy Brown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Leroy Brown?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bad Leroy Brown hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED